Here is a little something that I have been working on for the last week, a set of 25 hand drawn and vectorized Illustrator pattern swatches. Lots of little dots and dashes and crosses and zigzags. A diverse little set of basic patterns with gentle hand drawn look.

I have included both the colour variations and the original plane black line work versions in the download, each saved in 3 different formats. Each file has all 25 patterns already set up in the swatches panel. Each file also retains the original art in the main body of the document, providing several ways to transfer the patterns to your own open documents.

I hope you have as much fun with these as I have had making them :-)

Included in your download.

- 2 X .ai file - CS5

- 2 X .ai file - illustrator 8

- 2 X .eps file - Illustrator 8

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P.S.

For anyone who is new to using pattern swatches in Illustrator and who is not quite sure how to easily edit the colours in a pattern - or any layout or illustration for that matter..

This video gives you a basic introduction to Illustrator's Recolor Artwork panel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iO8NztSGbk

If that tickled your interest and you want to know more about editing colours in Illustrator, have a prowl through this list of YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=recolor+artwork+in+Illustrator.